Clashes Between Somali Islamists Kill 29, Wound 50

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MOGDASIHU, Somalia – Clashes between Islamist militias have killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 50 others in central Somalia, witnesses said Sunday. It was the latest sign of divisions within an Islamist insurgency the U.S. government says has links to al-Qaida.

The fighting in the town of Guriel between the hardline al-Shabab militia and a local Islamist militia coincides with the gradual evacuation of Ethiopian forces loyal to Somalia's tottering U.N.-backed government. Somali officials have warned that a power vacuum would spark intensified fighting.

Al-Shabab lost control of Guriel, 230 miles (370 kilometers) north of the capital, last month and a local militia commander said they had failed to retake it.

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